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Are you really overthinking, or are you searching for certainty?
I was asked today how to get out of your head.
I asked what that meant.
The answer was simple. Overthinking.
I have learned that most overthinking is not really about needing more information. It is about wanting more certainty.
You keep running the situation through your mind because you believe that somewhere in all that thinking is an answer that will guarantee everything turns out the way you want.
You do not want to make the wrong decision. You do not want to fail. You do not want to disappoint someone. So you think a little more. Then a little more.
But eventually thinking stops being productive and becomes interference.
The problem is not that you care too much. The problem is believing that enough thought can remove uncertainty from life.
It cannot.
You can prepare. You can learn. You can make the best decision available to you. You can influence what happens next through your actions. But you cannot guarantee the result.
That is where acceptance becomes powerful.
Sometimes getting out of your head does not mean stopping your thoughts. It means loosening your grip on needing to know what happens next.
Ask yourself one question today.
Is there something I can actually do about this right now?
If there is, take action.
If there is not, experience this moment instead of mentally living through a future that has not happened.
Uncertainty is not something you have to defeat before you can move forward.
Sometimes moving forward is how you learn to live with it.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
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Day
Internal
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Our
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Life
Situations
#certainty #nextstep #trust #overthinking #action
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Leo Jaerisch
I was asked today how to get out of your head.
I asked what that meant.
The answer was simple. Overthinking.
I have learned that most overthinking is not really about needing more information. It is about wanting more certainty.
You keep running the situation through your mind because you believe that somewhere in all that thinking is an answer that will guarantee everything turns out the way you want.
You do not want to make the wrong decision. You do not want to fail. You do not want to disappoint someone. So you think a little more. Then a little more.
But eventually thinking stops being productive and becomes interference.
The problem is not that you care too much. The problem is believing that enough thought can remove uncertainty from life.
It cannot.
You can prepare. You can learn. You can make the best decision available to you. You can influence what happens next through your actions. But you cannot guarantee the result.
That is where acceptance becomes powerful.
Sometimes getting out of your head does not mean stopping your thoughts. It means loosening your grip on needing to know what happens next.
Ask yourself one question today.
Is there something I can actually do about this right now?
If there is, take action.
If there is not, experience this moment instead of mentally living through a future that has not happened.
Uncertainty is not something you have to defeat before you can move forward.
Sometimes moving forward is how you learn to live with it.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#certainty #nextstep #trust #overthinking #action
Background Photo Credit:
Leo Jaerisch
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Do you trust yourself to figure it out?
I used to believe I needed to know more before I could become more.
When I started coaching, writing, and investing, I kept thinking I needed one more piece of information before I was ready. One more course. One more book. One more answer.
What I eventually realized was that learning had become a comfortable place to hide.
Knowledge was important, but knowledge alone was never going to create confidence. Action would.
So I started before I felt ready.
I put myself out there as a coach and learned through experience. I committed to writing every single day and became a better writer by writing. I started investing while continuing to research, learn, and adjust along the way.
That changed everything.
I stopped waiting to become the person who knew exactly what to do and started becoming the person who trusted himself to figure things out.
There is a huge difference.
Confidence is not knowing exactly what will happen. Confidence is trusting yourself enough to take the next action and knowing you can adjust as you learn.
Your potential does not grow because you keep thinking about what you could do. It grows when your thoughts become actions, and those actions are repeated through commitment, focus, and consistency.
So stop negotiating with yourself.
You said you were going to do it.
Start.
You do not need to know everything.
You need to trust yourself enough to figure out what comes next.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#confidence #know #everything #trust #understanding
Background Photo Credit:
Max Bovkun
I used to believe I needed to know more before I could become more.
When I started coaching, writing, and investing, I kept thinking I needed one more piece of information before I was ready. One more course. One more book. One more answer.
What I eventually realized was that learning had become a comfortable place to hide.
Knowledge was important, but knowledge alone was never going to create confidence. Action would.
So I started before I felt ready.
I put myself out there as a coach and learned through experience. I committed to writing every single day and became a better writer by writing. I started investing while continuing to research, learn, and adjust along the way.
That changed everything.
I stopped waiting to become the person who knew exactly what to do and started becoming the person who trusted himself to figure things out.
There is a huge difference.
Confidence is not knowing exactly what will happen. Confidence is trusting yourself enough to take the next action and knowing you can adjust as you learn.
Your potential does not grow because you keep thinking about what you could do. It grows when your thoughts become actions, and those actions are repeated through commitment, focus, and consistency.
So stop negotiating with yourself.
You said you were going to do it.
Start.
You do not need to know everything.
You need to trust yourself enough to figure out what comes next.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#confidence #know #everything #trust #understanding
Background Photo Credit:
Max Bovkun
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What are you still holding onto?
Yesterday while I was mowing, I noticed something that made me stop and think.
The leaves are already beginning their final journey to the ground.
Not many yet. It is still late summer. But as I watched a few slowly fall, I started thinking about how naturally a tree lets go when the season begins to change.
It does not fight to keep every leaf.
It does not hold tighter because that leaf has been there for the year.
It simply releases what has served its purpose because somehow it knows something we often forget.
New growth requires letting go.
Think about how much we hold onto in our own lives. Old relationships. Past mistakes. Regret. Anger. Expectations. Limiting beliefs. Even versions of ourselves that we have already outgrown.
We hold tighter because letting go feels like losing something. But sometimes what we call loss is actually life creating room for what comes next.
Maybe the anxiety we feel is not always about what we are losing. Maybe it comes from our resistance to accepting that the season has changed.
Awareness is recognizing what no longer serves you. Accountability is admitting you are still holding onto it. Responsibility is making the choice to finally release it.
You do not have to know exactly what comes next.
Sometimes you simply have to trust that this season of your life is asking you to let go so the next one has room to grow.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#growth #lettinggo #trust #season #become
Background Photo Credit:
Oleh Morhun
Yesterday while I was mowing, I noticed something that made me stop and think.
The leaves are already beginning their final journey to the ground.
Not many yet. It is still late summer. But as I watched a few slowly fall, I started thinking about how naturally a tree lets go when the season begins to change.
It does not fight to keep every leaf.
It does not hold tighter because that leaf has been there for the year.
It simply releases what has served its purpose because somehow it knows something we often forget.
New growth requires letting go.
Think about how much we hold onto in our own lives. Old relationships. Past mistakes. Regret. Anger. Expectations. Limiting beliefs. Even versions of ourselves that we have already outgrown.
We hold tighter because letting go feels like losing something. But sometimes what we call loss is actually life creating room for what comes next.
Maybe the anxiety we feel is not always about what we are losing. Maybe it comes from our resistance to accepting that the season has changed.
Awareness is recognizing what no longer serves you. Accountability is admitting you are still holding onto it. Responsibility is making the choice to finally release it.
You do not have to know exactly what comes next.
Sometimes you simply have to trust that this season of your life is asking you to let go so the next one has room to grow.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#growth #lettinggo #trust #season #become
Background Photo Credit:
Oleh Morhun
